kolor FW21 Conceives a Patchwork Riot
The Japanese brand mashed up sportswear and tailoring.
Junichi Abe’s kolor is immensely popular in its native Japan, so much so that the brand partnered with adidas several times in past seasons. For Fall/Winter 2021, the brand nodded to the sportiness of that joint effort, simultaneously delivering a fresh assortment of patched layering pieces and wearable essentials, the latter partially issued under its kolor Beacon sublabel.
Menswear and womenswear coincided on the Tokyo runway, highlighting a bevy of Abe’s signature mish-mash silhouettes that included track jackets erupting from tailored chesterfield coats, standalone collars wrapped around two-in-one sweaters and creased slacks finished with an elasticated drawstring waist. Elsewhere, logo-laden sweaters coincided with fringed piecemeal dresses, varsity jackets morphed into blazers and oversized harringtons were interrupted by windbreaker paneling. New patchwork sneakers and metal-accented loafers reinforced the collection’s disparate influences.
Other deconstruction-focused Japanese brands presented their own Fall/Winter 2021 collections recently, including Maison Mihara Yasuhiro, sulvam and Fumito Ganryu.
